COMMUNICATIONS
WHY STUDY PUBLIC SPEAKING?
Become an obviously overall better public
speaker.
 Professional reasons such as…
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Promoting professional self
Presenting ideas to decision makers
Create positive change in workplace
Contribute worthwhile ideas in meetings
(Brydon, Scott 5).
LITERACIES
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Oral Communication
involves…
Speaking skills
Voice techniques
Engaging your audience
SPEAKING SKILLS
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Studying oral communication can enhance your voice,
identity, & public participation
Verbal and nonverbal communication is very important when
delivering a speech.
Nonverbal communication is a wordless, silent system of
communicating. Smiles, gestures, and body movement can
add to the spontaneity of a speech.
In a public speaking class, it is taught to deliver your speech
with and effective voice, with relevant messages to the topic.
Speak with an impact, to inform or persuade the audience
(Brydon, Scott 272).
VOICE TECHNIQUES
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To gain better control of your voice, speakers
need to know how sound is produced and how
it can be manipulated.
Having a good speaking voice, is one of the
most important things.
Volume, pitch, range, rhythm, tempo, and
articulation, are the main ideas a speaker
needs to focus on.
With these vocal qualities in mind, it is
important to deliver a speech in your own
voice, and not imitate anyone else’s.
(Brydon, Scott 278).
ENGAGE AUDIENCE
Take a proactive approach
-Anticipate and control the variables that
will affect the speech delivery.
 Always speak with a purpose
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SURVEYS
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Surveys were
administered to students
in a public speaking
class.
Questions were asked
regarding the effects the
class has had on them,
and some difficulties they
had discovered.
SURVEY QUESTIONS
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How do you think that public speaking/communicative studies
classes has an effect on how well its students will communicate
when they get into the real world?
Student Answers:
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It will allow you to be able to speak in business environments and
corporate events. If you can master these talents, you look a lot
stronger as a person and can communicate much better
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Helps you to be able to speak in front of different types of audiences,
and the class helps you work on numerous speech skills to enhance
your speaking abilities.
SURVEY QUESTIONS
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What has been most helpful or instrumental to your
development, understanding, and practice of the skills
in this course?
Student Answers:
The textbook has been helpful to learn the different speaking
techniques.
Practicing the actual speeches, because it helps to overcome
nervousness.
SURVEY QUESTIONS
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What has been most difficult and caused you to have
trouble accessing or understanding the materials, doing
the work, being successful, etc.?
Student Answers:
The tests are very difficult, and are not an effective evaluation
if you know how to speak well or not.
Test evaluate miniscule details.
The professor, because he is foreign. At times, he can be very
hard to understand.
PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASSES
Pros
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Helps to gain speaking
experience in front of peers
Gives good tips on how to
better prepare and give your
speech
Pre-professional speaking
experience
•Cons
•Tests can be difficult
•Professor is hard to understand
SPONSORS OF LITERACY
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Technology sponsors a lot of literacy to communication
classes.
To create a visual speech, technology can be very useful.
PowerPoint's are one of the most powerful ways to present.
Giving the audience a visual, makes it a lot more interesting
for them
Technology can help a lot with research as well.
When using technology as a tool to support students
performing authentic tasks, they can define goals, make
decisions, and evaluate progress (Singh).
SPONSORS OF LITERACY
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“In whatever form, sponsors deliver the
ideological freight that must be borne for
access to what they have”
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-Deborah Brandt
NEGATIVE SPONSORSHIP
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In the public speaking class,
students from the surveys
have found that the professor
has been a negative sponsor
of literacy.
Asian and foreign professors
often make it hard for the
students to understand what
they are saying.
Learning becomes difficult.
COMMUNICATION COMMUNITY
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A discourse such as communication studies allows for
individuals to latch out of their comfort zone, and speak
to their peers.
“A speaker must learn to speak our language. Or they
must dare speak to it, or carry off the bluff.”
 -David
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Bartholomae
To keep and audience intrigued, a speaker must get to
know their audiences’ needs and wants, and be able to
identify with them.
WORKS CITED
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Brydon, Steven. Between One and Many: The Art and
Science of Public Speaking. New York, New York: McGraw
Hill, 2011. Print.
Singh, Ram. "Effects of Technology on Classrooms and
Students." Technology and Education Reform. n. page.
Web. 30 May. 2012.